Improvement in hair-brushes



- ing it by.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MAYER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

' IMPROVEMENT IN HAIR-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,295, dat-cd June 20, 1865.

To alt whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MAYBE, ofthe city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hair-Brushes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of the said iinproved brush, and Fig. 2 a view ofthe inner sideof one-half partof the same, cut vertically throughthe middlel of its length, like letters of reference indicating the same parts-when in both figures.

As hair-dressers aud barbers use pomadcs in dressing the hair, it is a matter ot' importance to them,as affordingfacility in theirI operations, to have the pomade and brush close at hand, and so that the one need not be laid down to pick up the other, nor his hands` become too much soiled with the poni ade and the object of my invention isto ai'ord this facility and cleanliness in the most perfect and effective manner.

The nature of my invention consists in inaking the handle ofthe brush tubular and titting within it a cylinder of porn-ade, so that the latter can be readily and sufficiently protruded for use, as occasion may require, at the uncovered end of the handles substantially by means of a concealedracl; and piston or its equivalent operated by onesthumb or linger applied to a spunwheel or its equivalent, which` slightly'I projects on the outer side of the said handle.

'In the drawings, A is the brush, which vis of the size and forni generally used bytbarhers and hair-dressers, having the tnbulfarhandle a applied thereto; B, the pomade; @,therack and piston, and c the spur-wheel for operat- The tubular portion of the handle ci. in this instanceis made principally of thin sheet-brass in acylindrical form, and havingonithe inner side of one end a screw-thread, a2, matching another screw-thread on a shorter cylinder, a3,

which is fixed permanently around the handle end of the brush A. This shorter cylinder a3 carries the spur-wheel c', and has also a hole made in the middle of its outer end, through which the rack C passes freely and connects with the wheel c of the brush A, the latter having a corresponding hole, a, of sufficient depth for the reception ofthe said rack when its piston end is run back against the inner end of the tubular handle c; and the rack C is made of sufficient length to remain in contact with the spur-wheel cwhen the piston end is run out to the outer end of the handle-ct. (See Fig. 2.)

The poinade B is solid and made to t the interior portion of the tubular handle a', and the outer end of it, as well as that of the handle, is sloped to an angle of about forty-ve degrees. The -end of the said handle is also tted with a removable cap, a5, or cover, as represented in Fig. l.

In the operation of this brush,when the use of the pomadeis required, the operator removes the cap a5, and by his thumb or finger used to rotate the wheel c the rack and piston is caused to force out the sloped end of the pomade, so that it can be used alternately with the brush A, and with the greatest facility, without soiling his hands, and. without laying down the one to pick up the other, as heretofore.

The head end of the brush is in this instance also provided with a pin-cushion, D, which, although an attachment of secondary importance, affords facility of access for pins, which are sometimes required iu dressing the hair.

Having thus fully described my improved hair-brush, whatI claim as new therein, of my invention, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A hair-brush having a tubular handle provided with any suitable pomade, and constructed so as to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

JOHN MAYEE.

Witnesses:

BENJ. MoEIscN, G. C. KOPP. 

